An autopsy showed Iman, who was six months pregnant with a girl, was stabbed 33 times in the upper body, and that some of those wounds were defensive. The Muslim community placed a bounty on the head of the murderer.

Md. arson probe eyes possible hate crime
Md. -- Authorities are investigating whether an arson spree at a new housing development in a Washington suburb was a hate crime, since many of the homeowners are black, a federal prosecutor said yesterday.

Fake "Hate Crimes" - Lesbian ex-Prof who faked "hate" vandalism gets a yearPOMONA, Calif. -- A former college professor convicted of staging a hate crime by spray-painting her own car with racist slurs was sentenced Wednesday to a year in prison. Kerri Dunn, 40, was convicted in August of filing a false police report and attempted insurance fraud, and had faced up to three years. The visiting psychology professor at Claremont McKenna College claimed her car was targeted March 9 in a hate crime while she was speaking at a campus forum on racial tolerance. The judge who earlier had ordered Dunn to undergo psychological testing said Wednesday she has "severe mental illness,"

White Man Guilty in Fla. Noose Incident
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- A white man accused of draping a noose around the shoulders of a black teenager was convicted Wednesday of misdemeanor battery. The jury declined to return a felony verdict that would have labeled the offense a hate crime. Circuit Judge Tim Peters, however, surprised the courtroom by sending Louis J. Giannola IV, 20, to jail pending his Jan. 10 sentencing. He had been free on bond, and a misdemeanor usually carries only probation for a defendant with no prior record. - (Gman)

Four Calif. Teens Charged With Hate CrimeSIMI VALLEY, Calif. -- Four white teenagers who allegedly beat a black youth at a suburban shopping center were booked on suspicion of committing a hate crime, police said Tuesday. - (reader link, Gman)

UK: Met clamps down on hate crime
More than 300 police officers across London made one arrest for homophobic attacks and nine for racist crimes. The operation comes shortly after a racist incident in Camden, where an Iraqi woman in Muslim dress was hit with a toolbox, kicked and spat at. - (Hellcat)

Hate Crime Laws: A Savage Hypocrisy - by Sara Townsley
Sentencing Cartman for committing a hate crime, the South Park judge explains: "I am making an example out of you, to send a message to people everywhere: if you want to hurt another human being ... you better make damn sure they're the same color as you are."

As the South Park kids eloquently argue, all crimes are hate crimes. By perpetuating unequal treatment under the law, hate crime laws simply reinforce divisions between different ethnic groups. Further, their primary function is to criminalize a person's thoughts during the commission of a crime, in a far more insidious way than the law's traditional focus on the accused's level of intent. By ratcheting up penalties for crimes committed against members of protected classes, they assign greater value to some people over others. Not insignificantly, there is also the problem of the Fourteenth Amendment's ban on laws that classify persons on the basis of race. And hate crimes statistics are manipulated to create the appearance of a crisis where one does not necessarily exist. - (Hellcat)

Man May Be Charged in Hmong Home Graffitti
Wis. -- A man may face charges he painted the word "killer" on his Hmong neighbors' homes shortly after a Hmong man was arrested in the fatal shootings of six white hunters last month, police said. Police Chief Dennis Beety said Friday that investigators have recommended prosecutors charge the 38-year-old man, who is white, with three counts of vandalism, possibly as a "hate crime".

Kentucky:
Presbyterian Church Receives Arson ThreatThe handwritten letter, received Wednesday at the church's Louisville
headquarters, threatened to set churches on fire while people were
inside in retaliation for "anti-Israel and anti-Jewish attitudes,"
The letter had no return address, but it was postmarked from Queens,
N.Y.,

Georgia
Court Throws Out Hate Crimes LawATLANTA -- The Georgia Supreme Court
unanimously struck down the state's hate crimes law Monday, saying the measure
is so broadly worded that it could even be used to prosecute a rabid sports fan
for picking on somebody wearing a rival team's cap. The 7-0 ruling came in the
case of a white man and woman convicted of beating two black men in Atlanta.

Pa.
Court Upholds 1969 Riot ConvictionsHARRISBURG, Pa. -- An appeals court
upheld the murder convictions of two white men for killing a black woman during
1969 race riots, saying the defendants failed to show they were harmed by the
32-year delay in the case.

Halloween
display of hanging 'ghoul' seen as symbol of hateUhuru Movement members
destroy the display outside a home. The owner says it never occurred to her it
would be offend anyone. "There is no history of hanging ghouls in
this country but there is a history of hanging African people," said Yeshitela,
leader of the black hate group. Yeshitela, who tore
down a mural in St. Petersburg City Hall that he found racially offensive in the
1960s, went to see the display."It's coming down," he said and
opened the chain-link gate around the yard. Yeshitela
walked up to the dummy and ripped it down. Uhuru supporters followed, dismantling
the gallows and tearing apart the dummy's head and limbs and leaving the newspaper
stuffing strewn across the yard. As the Uhuru members left the property, St. Petersburg
police Sgt. Glenn Stofer approached them and took their names, but did
not arrest anyone. - (Tyrone
N. Butts)

Man
Gets Life Sentence in "anti-Semitic" Stomping Death of non-JewST.
LOUIS -- A man who stomped another man to death in what prosecutors called an
anti-Semitic attack outside a St. Louis diner was sentenced to life in prison,
the maximum penalty. "This was a deliberate killing," the judge told
Kevin A. Johnson, 36, of St. Louis, before sentencing him. Witnesses said
Johnson, who has a tattoo of a swastika and a Confederate flag, stood on his chair
with another man inside the diner on Sept. 1, 2002, yelled "white power"
and gave the Nazi salute. Three witnesses said he shouted racist remarks and called
Schnelle, 46, a "Jew boy" before following him outside the diner, knocking
him down and stomping on his head. Family members said Schnelle was not Jewish.

Calif.
Man Gets 41 Mos. in Cross Burning SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A man who burned
a cross on a black family's lawn was sentenced Friday to more than three years
in federal prison. Christopher Easely, 22, of Anderson, had pleaded guilty
to conspiracy to violate civil rights and interference with housing rights. Easely
and a 16-year-old boy set the cross on fire last Jan. 2 in an attempt to intimidate
the occupants of the home, prosecutors said. The boy was prosecuted separately
and was sentenced in May to 12 to 18 months of incarceration. - (NNN
Norcal)

Ala.
Court Upholds Conviction in BombingMONTGOMERY,
Ala. -- An Alabama appeals court Friday unanimously upheld ex-Ku Klux Klansman
Bobby Frank Cherry's murder conviction and life sentences for a 1963 church
bombing that killed four black girls in Birmingham. The Alabama Court of Criminal
Appeals rejected Cherry's argument that the 37-year delay between the crime and
his indictment in 2000 was unfair. Cherry, 74, was convicted in May 2002 and is
serving four consecutive life sentences. He has maintained that he is innocent
and that he is "a political prisoner in Alabama."

Man
Charged With Recruiting Teens for HateN.Y. -- Thomas Zibelli has been
arrested on charges he used alcohol and pornography to recruit teenagers to deface
a Westchester County train station and synagogue with anti-Semitic stickers

Officials
Say Ind. Fire May Be Hate CrimeGARY, Ind. -- A fire that damaged a Habitat
for Humanity home a week before a black family was scheduled to move in has been
ruled an arson and appears to have been racially motivated, authorities said.

City
arson racially motivated Michael Boyle admitted to police that he set
fires on Hazle and Hutson streets and on Columbus Avenue, police said. When asked
why he lit the fire, Boyle allegedly used a racial epithet, saying he hates African
Americans and that he was raised that way, police said. - (Hellcat)

Texas:
White Man Guilty in Desecration of Byrd GraveOne of two white men charged
with desecrating the grave of a black man who was dragged to his death behind
a pickup truck pleaded guilty Wednesday to criminal mischief. Joshua Lee Talley,
19, was sentenced by a state judge to five months in jail and 10 years probation.

Man
pleads guilty to battery in 'hate crime' attackMario McGrew said
he is satisfied with Jeromy C. Kendall's guilty plea to two counts of battery.
On Aug. 10, 2002, McGrew and a friend, Sidney Hockaday, who are black,
said they were riding their bikes through the parking lot of the Campus Square
shopping center when three white men hollered racist comments at them. South Bend
police described the incident as a hate crime because of the racist name-calling,
including the "N" word, that started it.

Hate
crime: Six black students shouting racial slurs attacked three white students
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Police are investigating what they call
a hate crime involving students at Paxon Middle School on Friday. According to
detectives, six black students attackedthree
white students during gym class while shouting racial slurs at them.
Police report indicated that several black male students said, "This
is white cracker season" before they began pushing, hitting and kicking
several white male students. The State Attorney's Office is considering charges
of hate crimes, which elevates what would have been a first-degree misdemeanor
to a felony. "With the racial undertones, the race-crime aggravator was used,
and that would make it a third-degree felony" -
(Aetius)

Jury
Convicts CA Prof In Fake Anti-Semitic Attack -
(Mogly) A
psychology professor who claimed someone vandalized her car with racist
and anti-Semitic slurs on the campus of Claremont McKenna College was
charged with faking the incident.
Kerri Dunn faces a sentence ranging from probation to six years in
prison if convicted. Dunn, who is white, told police her car was
spray-painted with racist, anti-Semitic and sexist epithets while she
was on campus preparing a lecture for a forum on racism but witnesses
report she did the 'spraying'.

Unlike
the daily saturation news coverage of the "Texas Dragging Death", the Wyoming
gay bar soliciter and the NYC cop sodomizing the Holy Haitian Immigrant - we are
not finding daily national press coverage and follow-up on the cases of minority
on white 'hate crimes' and
many other cases with the 'wrong victim'... [that may be found in the
NNN archives...]

from Dark Storm Crow's definitions...Hate Crime-a violent crime committed against a person because of their
race, religion, sex, or sexual preference. Whites can only be victims of a hate
crime if they are homosexual.